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I would state that in order to do UW/FID effectively, you need a language capability, cultural orientation, and time in the AOR. Learning a second language opens your eyes to a number of cultutral issues at the same time. DA and SR is much easier to do well.
Beyond that, you need expertise in the subjects you are teaching, like small unit tactics up to the infantry battalion level or so.
You also need a strong background in politics, civics, ops, intel, etc. to understand the motivation and cause behind the opposition in order to counter it.
Maturity is essential, due to the sensitivities of the mission and requirement to maintain perspectives in dealing with the indig.
I will not take the bait and start another one of the Us vs. Them threads. All SOF have their strengths and weaknesses, and some are more appropriate for any given mission than others.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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